Capital International Buys Nearly 1 Million Shares of Bitcoin-Focused Microstrategy
Major asset management firm Capital International has gained exposure to bitcoin through investing in almost 1 million shares of Microstrategy which now holds more than 100K bitcoins. Capital International Investors (CII) informed the SEC in a filing dated July 12 that it has purchased shares of Microstrategy’s Class A common stock (MSTR). The filing states: CII is deemed to be the beneficial owner of 953,242 shares or 12.2% of the...
Man Sentenced to 12 Months Prison For Copyright Infringement & Tax Evasion
Almost eight years ago, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents received information from PayPal concerning a pair of pirate websites called Noobroom.com and Noobroom7.com. The platforms allowed subscribers to stream movies and TV shows, something that proved of particular interest to the MPAA. The Hollywood group conducted an investigation and it was determined that the sites were distributing copyrighted works without...
Toomics Reports Its Own Website for Copyright Infringements
Every other week we take a casual look at the various takedown requests companies such as Google and Twitter receive. The vast majority of the notices are valid and point to pirated material, but mistakes are certainly not hard to find. These errors come in different shapes and sizes. One wrongly identified URL in a list of thousands is somewhat understandable. However, there are also instances where it’s hard to find legitimate...
Set up temperature sensors in your home with a Raspberry Pi
It’s HOT! I suppose I can’t complain too much about living in paradise, but when my wife and I moved to Hawaii last fall, I didn’t really think too much about the weather. Don’t get me wrong, the weather is lovely pretty much all the time, and we keep our windows open 24/7, but that means it is pretty warm in the house right now in the middle of summer. read more Powered by...
Reading and writing files with Python
Some data is meant to be temporary, stored in RAM while an application is running, and then forgotten. Some data, however, is meant to be persistent. It’s stored on a hard drive for later use, and it’s often the stuff that a user cares about the most. For programmers, it’s very common to write code to read and write files, but every language handles this task a little differently. This article demonstrates how to...
